Lid-wiccas
- noun
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Carl féng tó eallum ðam westríce ... bútan Lidwiccium
Charles took all the western kingdom ... except Brittany,
- Chr. 885 ;
- Erl. 84, 13 .
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Two other MSS. have Lidwícingum,
- Th. 154, 155 ,
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and this form occurs in the Scop's Tale:--
Ic wæs mid Lidwícingum,
- Exon. 86 a ;
- Th. 323, 17 ;
- Víd. 80 .
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Micel sciphere com súþan of Lidwicum,
- Chr. 910 ;
- Erl. 101, 32 .
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Lidwiccum,
- 918 ;
- Erl. 102, 22 .
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The word seems to contain the British name for Armorica,
Llydaw.
- v. notes to the passages from the
- Cod. Exon. and from the
- Chron. 918 .
Bosworth, Joseph. “Lid-wiccas.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/21602.
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